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June, 1905 COAL AND TIMBER 23
miniature cars running in every direction
in the interior carrying coal and showing
all the workings of a coal mine in operation.
—Large tracts of coal lands in South
Franklin and Morris townships, Washington
county, Pa., have been optioned, and
—In order to dispose of their product, the farmers of that section of Pennsylvania
certain Kansas oil producers are planning
—The McClure Lumber Co. is putting in
think that it presages the coming of the
to put crude oil on the market in hope that
a large lumber mill near Birmingham, Ala.,
Wabash railroad. Frank DeYo, of Pittsburg,
has taken over about 1,000 acres at
it may replace coal as a fuel.
on the Warrior river.
—G. G. Gans and George L. Hibbs, of
—A prominent Chicago capitalist has purchased
timber lands in Louisiana amounting
a uniform price of $100 per acre for coal
Uniontown, Pa., have secured an option on alone. The coal underlying some nine or
1,800 acres of coal land in Marshall county,
in all to nearly $300,000 in value.
ten farms has already been optioned, these
W. Va. Messrs. Gans and Hibbs are the
—The Kentucky Lumber Co. is erecting a
options running for 90 days from the m'-J
promoters of the proposed Ohio & Marshall
modern band-sawmill at Tutwiler, with a
die of April.
railroad.
daily capacity of 30,000 feet of mercantile
—Rumor has it that the Western Allegheny
railroad is to be extended from New
lumber.
—The Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co., of
Quebec, Can., has signed a two year's agreement
with its employes, the changes made
—A number of new lumber manufacturing
Castle, Pa., to Youngstown, O., and that the
concerns will be established at various
road is to be a link in a new freight railroad
in the scale being of merely minor importance.
points in Tennessee with English labor,
from Lake Erie to the Atlantic seaboard.
so it is said, which will be colonized later.
It is stated that $1,000,000 is to be expended. —Ed. W. McNeil, of Morgantown, W.
—Attorney George B. Drake, of Waynesburg,
Pa., has closed the sale of a 1,500 acre the industries of the Mahoning Valley and
The firstaim of the extension is to reach
Va., has sold to the lumber firm of Donley
& Hatfield, his tracts of timber land in
block of coal land situated in the Graysville,
Washington county, Pa., neighbor­
Another plan is that the Western Allegheny
find a market for the Great Lakes Coal Co.
the Allegheny mountains, for $25,000 cash,
Mr. McNeil reserving the land and the
hood.
is to connect the Lake Erie & Pittsburg minerals.
—Rumors of a deal by eastern capitalists with the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg.
—John J. Dempsey, a rich lumberman of
to take over the Monongahela River Consolidated
Coal and Coke Co. are still per­
Co.'s interests by the H. C. Frick Coke Co. chased more than 100,000 acres of Wash­
—Since the purchase of the Hecla Coke Manistee, Mich., and his sons have pursistent
in some quarters despite apparently some changes have been made in the management
of the former concern. Charles H. at Tacoma they will erect several large and
ing state timber lands. On 60 acres bought
authoritative denials from officials of the
Pittsburg Coal Co.
Spencer, formerly general agent of the Frick well-equipped sawmills.
—Gross earnings of the Tennessee Coal company at Pittsburg, has been made general
manager of the Hecla interests and J. all declare that business in their line has
—Retail lumber firms of Columbus, O.
and Iron Co. decreased $3,933,131 in 1904,
according to a report for the year, the net D. McCreary, of Pittsburg, has been made never been so good as it is this season.
falling below $1,327,160. The result of all secretary and treasurer of the company acquired
by the Frick corporation. Both men up with their orders.
All the firms are having hard work to ke.cp
operations was a net surplus of $388,173,
against a surplus of $1, 734,162 the preceding
year. The total surplus now stands at month. Although the Hecla company is sylvania, capitalized at $60,000, ten per cent.
assumed their new positions the firstof last —The Ohio Pyle Lumber Co., of Penn­
$2,122, 335.
really a subsidiary concern, it is to be operated
of which has been paid in, has been granted
—The H. C. Frick Co. has let the contracts
for the erection of two large and substantial
as an independent plant in connection
with the Frick interests.
a charter.
—J. Kirk Jackson, private secretarv to
machine shops. One of these is to —The Proctor Coal Co., of Tennessee, the Governor of Alabama, was kept very
be at Trotter, Pa. and the other at its which owns 7,000 acres of rich coal land, busy for quite a long time signing patents
Leisenring plant, No. 3. The buildings will three large operating mining plants and a to the 174,000 acres of land in South Alabama,
which were due to the Perdido Bay
be 30x66 feet, constructed of brick with
line of railroad about two miles long in
slate roofs. The interior will be arranged Kentucky and Tennessee, not far from Lumber Co. as far back as 1879, when
in a modern manner for the repair of pit
Jellico, will, according to a rumor pass into Governor Lindsay was authorized to issue
wagons and all necessary carpenter and machine
work.
Campbell, a well-known coal operator of —Gov. Samuel W. Pennypacker, of Penn­
the ownership of a company of which R. O. them.
—The Pittsburg & Erie Coal Co. was organized
Atlanta, Ga., is the principal owner. The sylvania, has vetoed the bill passed at the
in Erie early last month. It is Proctor Coal Co. has a capital stock of last session of the State Legislature provid­
said that the new concern will take over
the coal interests of the W. L. Scott Coal
$300,000 and owns Grinstead, Proctor and
Indiana mountain mines, three and onehalf
ing for a miner's relief association. He vetoed
the bill on the ground that nothing
Co. Erie will be the headquarters of the
miles from Jellico and a line of road definite is provided by the bill. The bill
new corporation. The officers of the new connecting the Southern Railway and the provided for a board of five appointees by
company are: President, M. H. Taylor; company's property. R. O. Campbell is the Governor. Custody by the association
vice president, George B. Taylor; treasurer, president of the Campbell Coal Co. and of moneys specifically appropriated for the
A. G. Scheidenhelm; secretary, Frederick the Piedmont Coal Co., which owns extensive
payment of miners' pensions is covered by
mining properties at Oliver Springs, another section. This feature is objected
H. Lee; general sales agent, W. P. Bonney,
and mine manager, W. A. Luce.
in Elk Valley, near South Pittsburg, Ala. to by the Governor because no such appropriations
—One of the striking features at the
have been made. The Governor
Lewis and Clark Exposition will be a facsimile
of one of the mines of the Pacific
for this purpose, to hold out such hope to
Does Coal and Timber please you? The says: "In the absence of appropriations
Coal Co., occupying a large space in the price is $1 per year. If you will subscribe
the families of dead miners would be only
center of the mining building. The mountain
now we will send you a handsome present a deception and a delusion. When the com­
will be covered with canvas painted
monwealth is ready to provide means for
to life and showing a mountain stream winding
and any of our cartoons (printed on plate
this purpose it will be time enough to ar­
down a deep gulch while below will be paper) which you may select.
range a system for their
control."